53 – Abū al-Maʿālī al-Fārisī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad*
The trustworthy and eminent shaykh, a leading transmitter: Abū al-Maʿālī Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn ibn al-Qāsim al-Fārisī, later of Nīshāpūr.
Al-Samʿānī (1) says: “He is reliable and prolific. He heard the Sunan al-Kabīr from Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī from Saʿīd al-ʿAyyār, received narrations from Abū Ḥāmid al-Azharī, and also studied al-Madkhal ilā al-Sunan with al-Bayhaqī.”
He was born in Shaʿbān of 448 AH, and died on the 3rd of Jumādā al-Ākhirah 539 AH.
I add: Among those who narrated from him were Ibn ʿAsākir (2), al-Samʿānī, Manṣūr ibn al-Furāwī, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥamak al-Mughīthī, al-Muʾayyad al-Ṭūsī, Zaynab bint Abī al-Qāsim al-Shaʿrīyah, and others. He also granted an authorization to ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Abī Saʿd al-Samʿānī.
54 – Ibn Bāja, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Ṣāʾigh al-Saraqusṭī**
The philosopher of al-Andalus: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Ṣāʾigh al-Saraqusṭī, the poet.